I, Atheist

Most people become religious because of their parents, a disease, old age or just because something went very very wrong. They get the feeling there not alone and the promise that everything happens for a reason. 

But religion affects our lives in many ways and I think that’s dangerous. Dangerous because we let people who base their decisions on a book dictate our lives. Dangerous because religion in its pure form does not tolerate other ideas or opinions. Now don’t get me wrong… I’m not saying that all religious people are dangerous because that would be a stupid statement but a lot of religious people think they will suffer the wrath of a god if they or those around them don’t do his biding. 

So they make rules because everybody should be able to get in to the afterlife. These rules have consequences like not working on Sunday or getting a disease you could have avoided by using a condom. So religion affects our freedom, our right to think or to do what we want. In some countries the religious rules are a lot more dangerous then the rules we have here but the fact that there are religious rules in a country we believe to be civilized and free troubles me.  

Now let’s make it a little less serious… 

In the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (which is a great movie by the way, a must see I would say) they have a great machine that can erase memories. Now if we were to use that machine to erase religion from our lives I would be one happy guy. Not because I want to walk away from the problem called religion but because it would give us a fresh start. 

So thanks Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry for this great solution…